Now to set the Wayback Machine to last week for a few shots of gathering and making materials. . .

Here’s my housemates van laden with cardboard after a evening trip to the art supply dumpster.

These days I do my printing at New Urban Arts. Here are the many, many sheets of bricks on newsprint.

And here’s some more bricks! Big thanks to Annelise for helping me print.

Printing these sheets is enormously satisfying. It is a definitive quick and dirty process of conitnually adding new colors to the fades and then printing again on top of the halfway dried prints with more and more layers. I went through a lot of the ink dregs from the silk screening studio at NUA; some have been sitting around for years!

Tomorrow I will be in the window on Park Ave. folding and pasting boxes. Maybe I will have some pizza and get a milkshake. . .

This morning, after gathering materially in Providence, driving scenically along Rt. 146, and breakfasting deliciously in a diner on Lincoln St., we dropped Andrew off in an empty storefront dance studio on Park Ave, along with a pile of cardboard, a bag of implements, a creaky Raleigh bicycle, a lil’ stereo, and the 60 Greatest Old-Time Radio Shows on cassette tape.

Onwards, noble builder of Cardboards!!!!

Welcome, Welcome. . .

At stARt on the Street this year Andrew Oesch and Jean Cozzens will be making a big mess of things. . .  You remember playing with building blocks right? Well, Jean and Andrew are going to make cardboard blocks and cardboard girders of various sizes, then on Sunday September 21st 2008 it will be a free for all of street scale construction- everyone can build!

A diagram for your visual aid-

If you want to help us fold boxes or paste on brick patterns, email us! Or stop by our workshop, we’ll be in a storefront on Park Avenue, I think this is the place. . . Stop by tomorrow afternoon!and check back for progress updates.

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